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Chemical Landmark award to ETH and Bruker
ETH and the company Bruker where awarded the Chemical Landmark award by the Swiss academy of sciences. The long-standing public-private partnership of ETH and Bruker was honored, which had a decisive impact on the development of NMR.
New TCI cryoprobe with XYZ-gradients installed at 700 MHz instrument
This week the new probe at the 700 MHz instrument (sept) was installed. It has 1.4-fold higher senstivity on 1H than the probe it replaces and it sports XYZ gradients. This is the first probe of this kind at the platform and we're very much looking forward to explore the possibilites this new probe offers.
Microbiomics of ocean organism for new natural products
We contributed an NMR analysis to a major research effort of the Sunagawa and Piel laboratories. In this work, the genomes of countless ocean microorganisms were mined and thereby the number of know genomic sequences was increased 2–3 fold. Tens of thousands of gene clusters were identified with predicted novel synthetic capabilities. Some of them were reproduced experimentally and the resulting products were confirmed by NMR.